Who's reprehensible now?

Get your Frank Rich fix for free at Alternet today. Rich pens a stellar op-ed on Iraq and the White House lies that got us into this mess. Read it all but here's a couple of choice quotes.

The web of half-truths and falsehoods used to sell the war did not happen by accident; it was woven by design and then foisted on the public by a P.R. operation built expressly for that purpose in the White House. The real point of the Bush-Cheney verbal fisticuffs this month, like the earlier campaign to take down Joseph Wilson, is less to smite Democrats than to cover up wrongdoing in the executive branch between 9/11 and shock and awe.

The more we learn about the road to Iraq, the more we realize that it's a losing game to ask what lies the White House told along the way. A simpler question might be: What was not a lie?

A simple question perhaps but not an easy answer to find in an administration that lies even when it could tell the truth. I think, looking at the list of players Rich assembles, that what protected them -- a conspiracy so big it's almost impossible to believe in its existence -- will be what takes them down. Because it's impossible to keep a secret with so many players in on the game.